Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII

NOAA - NHC ^ | 29 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

[NautiNurse]

Category 4 Hurricane Katrina is approaching landfall in Eastern Louisiana. At 4:00AM EDT the storm's center was about 90 miles south of New Orleans.

The following links are self-updating:

Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 5A, 8A, 11A, 2P, etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 6A, 11A, 6P, 11P
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track
Navy Storm Track
Katrina Track Forecast Archive Nice loop of each NHC forecast track for both three and five day
Forecast Models
Alternate Hurricane Models via Skeetobite
Bouy Data Louisiana/Mississippi
Buoy Data Florida

Lake Ponchartrain Real Time Water Level

Wind Speed Data

Images:

New Orleans/Baton Rouge Experimental Radar Subject to delays and outages - and well worth the wait

Mobile Long Range Radar Loop

New Orleans/Baton Rouge Radar

Ft. Polk, LA Long Range Radar Loop

Northwest Florida Long Range Radar

Storm Floater IR Loop
Storm Floater Still & Loop Options
Color Enhanced IR Loop

Other Resources:

Hurricane Wind Risk Very informative tables showing inland wind potential by hurricane strength and forward motion
Central Florida Hurricane Center
New Orleans Web Cams Loads of web cam sites here. The sites have been very slow due to high traffic
New Orleans Music Online Couldn't resist--love that jazz
Golden Triangle Weather Page Nice Beaumont weather site with lots of tracks and graphics
Hurricane City
Crown Weather Tropical Website Offers a variety of storm info, with some nice track graphics

Live streaming:

Cut and Paste:

http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_khou&props=livenoad

Fully-linked version of the live feeds (just in case a few people don't want to first open up WMP to cut-and-paste) -

WWL-TV/DT New Orleans (WMP) - mms://beloint.wm.llnwd.net/beloint_wwltv
WVTM-TV/DT Birmingham (WMP) - mms://a1256.l1289835255.c12898.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/

1256/12898/v0001/reflector:35255
WDSU-TV/DT New Orleans (WMP) - http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38202.asx
Hurricane City (Real Player) - http://hurricanecity.com/live.ram
ABCNews Now (Real Player) - http://reallive.stream.aol.com/ramgen/redundant/abc/now_hi.rm
WKRG-TV/DT

Mobile (WMP) - mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast

.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518 WDSU-TV/DT New Orleans via WESH-TV/DT Orlando - http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38843.asx

Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12

Category	Wind Speed	Barometric Pressure	Storm Surge	Damage Potential
Tropical Depression	< 39 mph < 34 kts			Minimal
Tropical Storm	39 - 73 mph 34 - 63 kts			Minimal
Hurricane 1 (Weak)	74 - 95 mph 64 - 82 kts	28.94" or more 980.02 mb or more	4.0' - 5.0' 1.2 m - 1.5 m	Minimal damage to vegetation
Hurricane 2 (Moderate)	96 - 110 mph 83 - 95 kts	28.50" - 28.93" 965.12 mb - 979.68 mb	6.0' - 8.0' 1.8 m - 2.4 m	Moderate damage to houses
Hurricane 3 (Strong)	111 - 130 mph 96 - 112 kts	27.91" - 28.49" 945.14 mb - 964.78 mb	9.0' - 12.0' 2.7 m - 3.7 m	Extensive damage to small buildings
Hurricane 4 (Very strong)	131 - 155 mph 113 - 135 kts	27.17" - 27.90" 920.08 mb - 944.80 mb	13.0' - 18.0' 3.9 m - 5.5 m	Extreme structural damage
Hurricane 5 (Devastating)	Greater than 155 mph Greater than 135 kts	Less than 27.17" Less than 920.08 mb	Greater than 18.0' Greater than 5.5m	Catastrophic building failures possible

[kinghorse]

Which is pretty good empirical evidence that someone had a idea (experience) that lead them to believe it's a good place to build. Two major hurricanes and they both do a side step around the Big Easy.

[the Deejay]

I can understand caskets floating,
but not the bodies. Maybe the
report is the floating bodies
of those that tried to holdup
in their homes.

[Gondring]

Oh man. I hope the US Army Corps of Engineers can get/keep the pumps online.

According to TWC:

Engineering now allows underground burial in the sub-sea level city, and floating caskets are a thing of the past. "That no longer really never happens in New Orleans because the land has been drained since the turn of the century. A system of water pumps... drains water out from under the city 24 hours a day." (my emphases)

Hmm...lucky we didn't have the caskets floating then?

[johniegrad]

Is that thing wrapped around that tree in the form of the letter C?

[Frank_Discussion]

I'm truly an eternal optimist, but this whole series of events was a recipe for some major mortality.

[Peanut Gallery]

That is not entirely accurate. They raised the grade of the island. I don't exactly remember, but I believe it was a 15 degree grade. For existing buildings, they "lifted" them using jackscrews and, using a vey hugh pipe, pumped wet sand in the spaces below with sand from the ship channel. They also built the seawall for further protection.

[txhurl]

Camille killed ~?250?

[bwteim]

I think that is per quart.
http://extension.usu.edu/publica/foodpubs/watersto.htm


"Chlorine Treatment: Liquid chlorine bleach can be used to disinfect water for long-term storage. One gallon can be treated by the addition of ¼ teaspoon of liquid chlorine bleach containing 4 to 6 percent sodium hypochlorite. (Most bleaches contain 5.25 percent.) This is equivalent to 16 drops of liquid chlorine bleach."

[r9etb]

Whoa ... you've got to be driving pretty fast to wrap your car around a tree like that. I hope that damned fool didn't kill anybody besides himself.

[deport]

I knew it was too good to last forever.

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Would these bodies if just dead be floating this quick? Or do you think they are from the burial sites, etc.?

[Dog Gone]

Mayor Nagin issued a "boil water" recommendation for water in the city - except for Algiers and the CBD due to a water main line break that may have compromised the water.

That may be easier said than done with no power.

[monday]

"We praise and give thanks to the Lord who spared the lives of many in this storm."

Who's "WE". Got a midget in your pocket? ;o)

[Gone GF]

"(Richmond, Virginia, where our motto is "Will Riot For Cheap Laptops")"

But wasn't that out in the suburbs of Henrico, not in the city?

[cll]

I spent a month without electricity after Georges in 1998 (Puerto Rico) and I lived in Alabama then but the San Juan Metropolitan Area was without running water for two months after Hugo in 1989 because its main reservoir was damaged.

We're one thousand miles from the mainland so driving to another state is not an option.

What I would do first thing after the winds and the water are gone and everybody is accounted for, is to have a big ol' neighborhood barbeque with everything that's on everybody's fridges and before the beer goes warm.

Then start cleaning and rebuilding.

This year I have a little 1600 watt Yamaha silent gasoline generator that can run my fridge for up to 12 hours on one fuel load.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

That's what I'm expecting...I watched the worst part of the hurricane go right over them.

[SunnySide]

You have to wonder how fast(fool if he was) he was driving or did the hurricane force wrap his vehicle around the tree?

(eyes bugged out)

[Knitting A Conundrum]

That's what it'll be. People who got trapped by rising water or accident during the storm.

[WestCoastGal]

I know he said his Mother lives in Mississippi. He seems to know all the cities between NO and Miss.

[r9etb]

Excellent information. Thanks for the correction.